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has been a good deal abroad,, and has a great of knowledge: his
studies have lain a good deal in the same track with mine
He is a utilitarian, a naturalist, a chemist, a physician, was once what
I had like to have been a methodist: and what I should have
been still had I not been what I am, as Alexander if he
had not been Alexander (I am wrong in the story but
never mind) would have been Parmenir Diogenes. In short we are
become great friends, and he has given me the carte du
pays. There is a mixture of simplicity candor, good and
a composed earnestness temper'd with good breeding that has
won upon me mightily: and upon the terms of my indulging
him in his patriotism and antipathy to your countrymen
(some of whom however he has a great respect for) I am apt
to think we shall be fast friends. He is to come here again
ere long that I may cast an eye over a work of his part
of which is printed; and he in return is to assist me in the revival
of mine, which he enters into the spirit of most perfectly. He
has made me promise to go over and see him at his living, which

Identifier: | JB/539/211/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	211	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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